Taxe d'habitation

[MAD87]

I know that if we were still in the last house we owned in the UK, we'd be paying much much more.

Well move to St Yrieix and you will change your mind - €85K house pays €2.5K tax vs £300K house pays £1.6K tax

edit - and as for reducing profligacy - it didn't work!

St Yrieix has a lot of facilities, including old folks' homes, the absolute killer for both TH and TF. When we researched a 'town' commune, we ignored all those with residential facilities for the elderly.
Still, I checked our old house's current council tax (£2.4k), which makes the St Y rates look extortionate.

[Chappers51]

We have that large container system here and there’s always a pile of black bags next to the one outside the salle de fêtes.
I think tippers probably choose to leave them at that point because there are no houses directly opposite and there’s parking in front plus it’s the main route through the village.